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Computer lesson 23: History of computers · Set 88 · 40 questions
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Remember (From beads to chips): Old counting tools: tally sticks, abacus, Napier’s bones, slide rule, Pascaline, Babbage’s engines. Charles Babbage is called the father of the computer; his Analytical Engine was planned to be programmed. Generations: 1 vacuum tubes, 2 transistors, 3 integrated circuits, 4 microprocessors.

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  1. 1.👴 Who is called the father of the computer? (a) Blaise Pascal (b) John Napier (c) Charles Babbage
  2. 2.🕰️ Is “Pascaline” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  3. 3.⚡ Which generation of computers first used vacuum tubes?
  4. 4.🏢 The first electronic computers were so big that they filled a ___. (a) lunch box (b) pencil box (c) pocket (d) whole room
  5. 5.What did computers of generation 1 first use? (a) transistors (b) integrated circuits (c) microprocessors (d) vacuum tubes
  6. 6.🕰️ Is “Difference Engine” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  7. 7.True or false: computers of generation 1 first used transistors. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Difference Engine (b) slide rule (c) smartphone (d) Napier’s bones
  9. 9.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Pascaline (b) tablet (c) Difference Engine (d) abacus
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) smartwatch (b) abacus (c) desktop computer (d) tablet
  11. 11.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) Difference Engine (b) laptop (c) smartwatch (d) supercomputer
  12. 12.True or false: computers of generation 3 first used integrated circuits. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tablet (b) Napier’s bones (c) smartphone (d) laptop
  14. 14.⚙️ Which planned machine of Charles Babbage could be programmed? (a) Napier’s bones (b) Analytical Engine (c) Pascaline (d) abacus
  15. 15.What did computers of generation 4 first use? (a) vacuum tubes (b) integrated circuits (c) microprocessors (d) transistors
  16. 16.What did computers of generation 3 first use? (a) transistors (b) microprocessors (c) vacuum tubes (d) integrated circuits
  17. 17.Which of these is a modern computer? (a) Difference Engine (b) smartwatch (c) slide rule (d) Pascaline
  18. 18.What did computers of generation 2 first use? (a) transistors (b) integrated circuits (c) vacuum tubes (d) microprocessors
  19. 19.True or false: “supercomputer” is a modern computer. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🦴 Napier’s bones were used to ___. (a) play music (b) draw pictures (c) multiply numbers (d) send emails
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tablet (b) abacus (c) Pascaline (d) Napier’s bones
  22. 22.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) smartphone (b) desktop computer (c) tablet (d) Napier’s bones
  23. 23.🕰️ Is “smartwatch” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  24. 24.🕰️ Is “smartphone” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  25. 25.True or false: “abacus” is an old counting tool. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: computers of generation 4 first used microprocessors. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.⚡ Which generation of computers first used microprocessors?
  28. 28.True or false: computers of generation 1 first used vacuum tubes. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.⚡ Which generation of computers first used transistors?
  30. 30.🕰️ Is “tablet” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  31. 31.🧮 Which is one of the oldest counting tools? (a) the abacus (b) the laptop (c) the calculator (d) the smartphone
  32. 32.🕰️ Is “tally sticks” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) a modern computer (b) an old counting tool
  33. 33.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) smartphone (b) laptop (c) abacus (d) supercomputer
  34. 34.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) smartphone (b) Pascaline (c) tablet (d) laptop
  35. 35.True or false: computers of generation 2 first used transistors. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) slide rule (b) smartphone (c) Pascaline (d) Napier’s bones
  37. 37.🕰️ Is “Napier’s bones” an old counting tool or a modern computer? (a) an old counting tool (b) a modern computer
  38. 38.Which of these is an old counting tool? (a) laptop (b) smartphone (c) tally sticks (d) tablet
  39. 39.⚡ Which generation of computers first used integrated circuits?
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tablet (b) smartphone (c) laptop (d) Pascaline

Answer key

  1. Charles Babbage
  2. an old counting tool
  3. 1
  4. whole room
  5. vacuum tubes
  6. an old counting tool
  7. False
  8. smartphone
  9. tablet
  10. abacus
  11. Difference Engine
  12. True
  13. Napier’s bones
  14. Analytical Engine
  15. microprocessors
  16. integrated circuits
  17. smartwatch
  18. transistors
  19. True
  20. multiply numbers
  21. tablet
  22. Napier’s bones
  23. a modern computer
  24. a modern computer
  25. True
  26. True
  27. 4
  28. True
  29. 2
  30. a modern computer
  31. the abacus
  32. an old counting tool
  33. abacus
  34. Pascaline
  35. True
  36. smartphone
  37. an old counting tool
  38. tally sticks
  39. 3
  40. Pascaline

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